First International ISSA Conference to be Held in Atlanta in 2010
Gary Palgon
Vice President, Product Management
nuBridges
The Metro Atlanta ISSA hosted its 5th annual information security conference on Veteran’s Day, November 11th, with the theme of "Magnify Your Security." It was great to see they took time out in the opening session to recognize the dozen or so Veterans among the attendees. Thanks to all of you have served and do serve our country!
It was formally announced that Atlanta will host the first international ISSA conference on September 15-17, 2010. This is great news for the ISSA community as well as for Atlanta, which has historically been the home for many security startups -- Internet Security Systems (now IBM ISS); SPIDynamics (now HP), PureWire (now Barracuda Networks), CipherTrust (now SecureComputing) and many more.
Also of interest at the annual Atlanta ISSA meeting was a presentation by Kevin Campbell of PriceWaterhouseCoopers, covering PWC’s Global State of Information Security Survey. Lots of great and timely information about spending and security breaches. Kevin summarized the executives’ views in the coming year as focused on looking at and placing their highest expectations on initiatives that:
- Protect data
- Address the big risks first
- Pull this portfolio of multi-year investments together (strategy)
- Reduce cost and increase efficiency
- Prepare for a wave of new regulations (e.g. State Breach Notification Laws)
To the last point, he noted that because of the effect of the economic downturn, regulations are on the rise – led perhaps by a new wave of privacy laws.
Until next time,
Gary
